KUALA LUMPUR: Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has delivered its 50th liquified natural gas (LNG) cargo from its first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, the Petronas Floating LNG Satu (PFLNG Satu).
The national oil company said the cargo was loaded on September 25 onto the Seri Cemara LNG carrier operated by MISC Bhd for shipment to Taiwan.
Petronas said the 50th cargo was a significant achievement, demonstrating the group's viability of offshore gas production with FLNG solutions.
The first FLNG cargo was produced from the Kanowit gas field, offshore Sarawak in 2017.
PFLNG Satu was also the world's first FLNG facility to produce LNG from two remote gas fields when it was relocated from the Kanowit gas field to its current location at the Kebabangan gas field offshore Sabah in 2019.
Petronas (LNG assets) vice president Abang Yusuf Abang Puteh said the milestone cargo signified Petronas's world-class reliability of its first FLNG facility.
"More importantly, the commitment of our workforce to provide an uninterrupted supply of LNG to our customers," he said in a statement today.
He said PFLNG Satu had produced and exported nearly 3.18 million tonnes of LNG from the Kebabangan and Kanowit gas fields since 2017, while maintaining high health, safety, security and environment (HSSE) standards.
The PFLNG Satu is designed to operate at water depths of up to 200 meters with a production capacity of 1.2 million tonnes of LNG per annum.
Petronas is the only energy company in the world that owns and operates two FLNG facilities.